Pacnet has opened its TJCS1 data center in Tianjin, China, designed to address the increasing demand for data center and managed services in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

The 226,000 sq ft, Tier III facility is located in the Gaocun Science and Technology Innovation Park of the Tianjin Wuqing District in China. The area has attracted more than US$1.9bn in data center investment capital to date. The park was developed by Pacnet’s equity joint venture in China, Pacnet Business Solutions, and the Tianjin Wuqing government.

Pacnet said TJCS1 is instrumental in a bid to establish Wuqing’s Gaocun Science and Technology Innovation Park as a leading technology hub in Northern China.

The new site can host 2,000 racks and features N+1 and 2N redundant power. It will provide software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities to its customers, so they can self-provision bandwidth based on demand.

PEN pushing
TJCS1 is connected to the Beijing data center owned by China International Data System (CIDS) via Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN), its pan-Asian Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) architecture for cloud deployments.

Pacnet recently launched PEN 2.0 which, among various enhancements, offers support of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions in an OpenStack environment including vFirewall and vRouter.

PEN 2.0 also enables creation of VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks) that span across multiple endpoints. This allows Pacnet to establish a dedicated Ethernet connection directly to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, and extend these circuits anywhere across a customer’s network.

The PEN service covers the US, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.